{"id":2683,"date":"2025-07-19T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:14:28","slug":"the-best-thing-the-ps6-can-do-is-be-less-powerful-than-ps5-readers-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/19\/the-best-thing-the-ps6-can-do-is-be-less-powerful-than-ps5-readers-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"The best thing the PS6 can do is be less powerful than PS5 \u2013 Reader\u2019s Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Does the PS6 need to go backwards? (Sony\/Metro)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A reader argues that rising costs in the games industry means Sony<\/a> would be wise to make the PS6<\/a> less powerful than current gen consoles.<\/p>\n

In two years\u2019 time we\u2019re going to be drowning in news, rumours and leaks about the PlayStation 6<\/a>. Everything seems to point towards it coming out in 2027 and I have not met a single person that\u2019s excited about it. Everybody thinks it\u2019s too soon, everyone thinks the PlayStation 5<\/a> has barely started, and everyone thinks Sony has dropped the ball in terms of games.<\/p>\n

Or maybe everyone doesn\u2019t think that. Maybe I\u2019m just living in a bubble with my video game savvy friends, but it doesn\u2019t matter because dread it, run from it, the PlayStation 6 will arrive all the same.<\/p>\n

We haven\u2019t got any details yet, that I\u2019m aware of, but the few hints we\u2019ve had are of a new console (and a portable) that is even more powerful than the last one and no doubt even more expensive. Considering the PS5 Pro is already the most expensive console I don\u2019t even want to think about how much the PlayStation 6 is going to cost.<\/p>\n

As we all know by now, more powerful means it\u2019ll take even longer to make games and need more money and people. This will mean less games, less often, and absolutely no risks of any kind – including probably any new IP at all. We\u2019ve already seen this in this generation, where everything\u2019s slowed to a crawl, but a new console is only going to make things worse.<\/p>\n

What makes the whole situation all the sadder is that there is no way on Earth the extra power is going to make any difference. There\u2019s barely any difference between PlayStation 4 and 5 games as it is, so the difference between 5 and 6 is going to be miniscule and certainly nothing a normal person will ever notice.<\/p>\n

Remember that PlayStation 5 tech demo<\/a> that looked a bit like Tomb Raider? We haven\u2019t seen anything like that so far in an actual game, so that was all just a lie. They always are, I know, but whatever excuse they try to give for the PlayStation 6 needing to exist is going to be a con.<\/p>\n

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Considering everything going on in gaming at the moment the only decision that makes any sense to me is making the PlayStation 6 less powerful than the PlayStation 5. If that sounds silly to you, I guarantee the vast majority of people wouldn\u2019t even notice. If you told them it was more powerful (which I\u2019m not suggesting Sony do) they\u2019d probably believe it, just because nothing in terms of graphics has looked any different in years.<\/p>\n

Sony should explain that in order for the portable and console machines to be running the same games they had to lower the overall power, since a portable can never be as powerful as a home console.<\/p>\n

There are better reasons to decrease the power though and not just because it\u2019ll make the console cheaper. We\u2019ve known about the problem that games cost too much to make for years now and nobody has done a thing about it. Not Sony and not anyone else.
If the PlayStation 6 is more powerful – if it is just another box under the TV- then the problem is only going to continue to get worse until something snaps and suddenly video games just aren\u2019t viable anymore.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to see a future where the only video games are indies, mobile games, and free to play, but that is where we\u2019re headed, and very quickly. The future should be AA games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream<\/a> (which I haven\u2019t played yet but was fascinated to hear about this week).<\/p>\n

But none of the big publishers care about that, they think it\u2019s small beans and not worth bothering with. If they carry on their current course, games will end up costing \u00a3100+ (there\u2019s already rumours of that for GTA 6), they\u2019ll take 10 years to make, and they\u2019ll only be the safest of safe franchises and ideas.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just publishers I worry aren\u2019t doing anything about this ticking time bomb, it\u2019s gamers who just hope the problem is going to magically go away. If games become unprofitable publishers will simply stop making them. They won\u2019t start making cheaper games because then their graphs won\u2019t go up, they\u2019ll just find something else to make money from.<\/p>\n

Something has to change. It\u2019s not enough even to draw the line here, they have to go back to before the PlayStation 5, when companies could still afford to make games and we could still afford to pay for them.<\/p>\n

By reader Captone<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Arrow<\/title><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/07\/19\/standards-video-game-reviews-need-higher-readers-feature-23698896\/?ico=more_text_links\" class=\"\">The standards for video game reviews need to be higher – Reader's Feature<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><title>Arrow<\/title><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/07\/13\/zelda-wind-waker-still-amazing-game-can-inspire-future-sequels-readers-feature-23646072\/?ico=more_text_links\" class=\"\">Zelda: The Wind Waker is still an amazing game that can inspire future sequels \u2013 Reader\u2019s Feature<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><title>Arrow<\/title><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/07\/13\/wish-bethesda-didnt-make-fallout-elder-scrolls-readers-feature-23646848\/?ico=more_text_links\" class=\"\">I wish Bethesda didn\u2019t make Fallout and The Elder Scrolls – Reader\u2019s Feature<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the PS6 need to go backwards? (Sony\/Metro) A reader argues that rising costs in the games industry means Sony would be wise to make the PS6 less powerful than current gen consoles. In two years\u2019 time we\u2019re going to be drowning in news, rumours and leaks about the PlayStation...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions\/2687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}